FRES VIce President Anne Papageorge, right, with Penn employees who signed up for trees.

Environmental Sustainability Coordinator Dan Garofalo

FRES VIce President Anne Papageorge

Mayor Michael Nutter

FRES VIce President Anne Papageorge

Date:

Thu, 03/31/2011

March 31, 2011

As the first institution to take part in Philadelphia’s Creating Canopy program, the University of Pennsylvania partnered with the city’s Parks and Recreation Department to distribute to faculty and staff homeowners in the city 300 free trees to plant on their property.

The “Creating Canopy with Penn” pilot program offered the trees on a first-come, first-served basis. It was part of Mayor Michael A. Nutter’s Greenworks campaign, which calls for planting 300,000 new trees in the city by 2015.